Do You Believe In The Weatherman?

Many times I have believed in what they tell us of what is going to happen, and it doesn't happen. All that technology and gadgets and machines and everything and they still cannot predict that weather 100 percent sometimes. They make thier money either way though. That is a joke that I hear around.
I mean I am watching the weather channel just a few minutes ago and one map said that it was snow near the great lakes and down into the Ohio Valley and then they switched that view and it shoed an all rain event. I just think it is kind of funny. Some days the local weatherna will be stating that something is happening and I look out my window and have to ask "Where". LOL.

Do you think all this tech is doing any good?

 

Not a single word do I believe..I just wait and see what the day brings now .

I wish I'd trained to be a meteorologist......as someone said on here not long ago..it's the only job you can get wrong 90% of the time and still not lose your job..

 

Yes, most times I look out my window to see what it is doing outside.

 

It's very easy to predict weather in Fresno, no need for a weatherman at all. A few rare occasions when a pattern changes but for the most part it's the same, no surprises.

We have about 300 days of sunshine, not much wind, not enough rain and that only happens in the winter months anyway, might get a rare rain day in the summer. When it does rain in the winter, it's just rain, seldom any thunder or lightening. Starting in May til Nov. It's hot and sunny.

 

Sometimes I think they flip a coin before giving their reports. They have given some accurate forecasts about what is coming in the near future - I'll give them that .... but most of the time it's hit and miss.

 

Same in Spain @Chrissy Page because it's hot and dry for months on end...but here where we sometimes have 4 seasons in a week...we never get a correct forecast..

 

I believe them most of the time... they're usually right for my area actually. Maybe not for things like precise snowfall amounts, but they're right on the mark for temperature usually. Long-range forecasts they seem to have more of a problem with.

 

The way I see it, the weather people are human and do make mistakes. However, a person would think that with all the high dollar/highly sophisticated equipment they have, the forecasts could be much better. Since we are into power boating, we have to "try" to go by what the forecast is. Would hate it if we decided to take our boat out on the water because the weather looked beautiful in the morning, and then, while on the water, a t-storm came in. That is why we listen/watch the weather report..........so, hopefully we can avoid weather like that.

 

I agree, Cody. Knowing the weather when you are boating or even driving on a trip is important. We get fog here in the winter and if I know it's going to be foggy I will leave later.

 

You will also notice that after daylight the weather-guessers will change their reports..They are also looking out the window!!

 

I like listening to the weather on the news and getting alerts that I've subscribed to in my email, so I can know what is coming maybe. I believe it's best to be forewarned especially about the weather. You can pray for a miracle and I often do pray. Catching the bus we need a lot of sunny weather so its so much easier to travel on the bus, so I pray a lot especially if it's a wet day and I need a sunny one.


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Here's one for "the books"! My ex-wife, born in Europe, having come to America with her folks, sister & brother at age 16, was watching the weather with me, she was still a bit "shaky" with English, but being a really smart girl, asked me what the weather guy meant. he had said tomorrow there was a 20 percent chance of rain.

With profound wisdom, I thought it must have been, she said he was wrong! Her reasoning concluded that tomorrow it will either rain, or it will not. That makes it a 50% chance of rain!

I could not fault her reasoning! We separated after 12 years. I hate to think about this. Frank

 

I think certain weather patterns are predictable as @Chrissy Page mentioned about Fresno, but in areas when commonly changing wind direction is involved which is very unpredictable, it is a bit like tossing a coin. When weather conditions are settled they are usually right in my experience, even in places like the UK, which can often change in an hour as @Holly Saunders mentioned.

Computers play a large part in weather forecasting these days, but I am not sure how much of an improvement this has achieved.

 

Britain and Ireland are prone to weather that changes radically in a short space of time. I'm reminded of a few days that we spend in Cork a couple of years ago. We were just about to go out. The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky. My partner Katusha, a native of that city, was putting on a waterproof jacket. I asked why. "Going to rain," she said with utter certainty. She was right.

As people say in that part of the world, if you can see the Cork and Kerry mountains, it's going to rain. If you can't, it's raining already.